Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2001/02/19/18:22:39
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:00:45PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>> [Moved to cygwin-apps from cygwin-developers]
>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 05:03:55PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> >Brian Keener wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Well, I rolled everything back to what I think I had before my mass set
>> >> of updates and my cinstall now compiles again and actually reports the
>> >> sizes correctly.
>> >>
>> >> Now all I have to do is figure out which update is was that broke it.
>> >>
>> >> Can some one point me in a general direction of what packages might be
>> >> involved in the configure and making process of cinstall and the which
>> >> package is responsible for the sys/stat.h header file so that I can
>> >> minimize my search and bring the rest of the packages up to date again
>> >> without worrying about having to watch all the packages.
>> >
>> >Corinna has just patched download.cc to avoid the problem. The real
>> >problem is that __MSVCRT__ needs to be defined in -mno-cygwin is used.
>> >This would fix the problem.
>> >
>> >I know that I had this in my patch to Chris. He must have missed it
>> >when he created the distribution.
>>
>> I'm not sure how I did this since your changes are currently in my sources.
>> I did miss it though. Sorry.
>>
>> I have a new distribution ready to go. I was waiting to see if I got everything
>> right but testing it on some internal guinea pigs.
>>
>> Unfortunately, they don't use cygwin the way the rest of the net does.
>>
>> A couple of questions:
>>
>> 1) Was the defaulting to -mno-win32 a noble but doomed experiment?
>>
>
>Noble, yes. Doomed, no. I don't think enough have used it since the
>default download is 2.95.2-6.
>
>> 2) If we want to stick with -mno-win32 as the default, should gcc
>> include /usr/include/w32api by default? I really don't think that
>> it should but I don't look forward to submitting changes to
>> the stuff in sources.redhat.com that breaks as a result.
>
>Debatable but I'm inclined to leave it out. If you need it then you
>also need -mwin32.
>
>> 3) Does anyone run this release of gcc as a cross compiler? Corinna
>> isn't able to do this but I'm not having any problems building it.
>
>I don't run any release as a cross compiler. What's Corinna's problem?
Hopefully she'll chime in here.
>> 4) Is anyone going to checkin a libstdc++.a into winsup/mingw so that I
>> can add this to the distribution?
>
>I'm not ready for a new release of these. Please leave the existing
>distribution.
But we don't have anything now and people are reporting that Mumit's (old?)
distribution works ok. Couldn't we just use that for the time being just
to quiet the mailing list?
FWIW, I've removed the -7 distribution. It was too broken.
cgf
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